Family Quotes

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

William S. Burroughs

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west

Rodney Dangerfield

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Will Durant

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

Bradley Cooper

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Margaret Sanger

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Orlando Bloom

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Voltaire

I tell ya, my family were always big drinkers. When I was a kid, I was missing. They put my picture on a bottle of Scotch.

Rodney Dangerfield

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

Michael Pitt

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

Henry Louis Gates

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Michel de Montaigne

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Mary Wortley Montagu

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Anita Baker

My family begins with me, your family ends with you.

Iphicrates

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

Temple Grandin

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

LaToya Jackson

Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

Chris Christie